CO2 has the potential to replace common organic solvents and could thus be an important green solvent in the future. It is nontoxic, nonflammable, recyclable and has easily accessible critical parameters. Its low cost and high abundance make CO2 especially interesting for use on large industrial scale. In order to use CO2 as a green solvent the major challenge is that polar and high molecular weight compounds are poorly soluble in liquid or supercritical CO2. Therefore it is necessary to design new CO2-philes. This thesis describes the synthesis and characterisation of novel amphiphiles as potential CO2-philes. A focus on the design of those amphiphiles is the use of carbohydrates as synthetic building blocks of biorenewable resources. Especially the inositols (cyclohexane-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexols) as a relatively unknown class of carbohydrates are of interest. They possess higher chemical-, pH- and thermo-stability due to the cyclohexyl ring skeleton instead of the (hemi )acetal substructure of e.g. pyranoses or furanoses. Synthetic routes to new amphiphiles, bola amphiphiles and gemini tensides as potential CO2-surfactants are elaborated in this work. The syntheses of a) inositol esters, b) inositol ester mixtures, c) partially fluorinated inositol ethers, d) partially fluorinated inositol ethers with ethylene glycol linker, e) partially fluorinated glucose ethers with ethylene glycol linker, f) pentafluorophenole containing CO2-philic compounds and g) carbohydrate acetate containing CO2-philic compounds are shown. In addition, the liquid crystalline properties of the target structures are presented and measurements from our cooperation partners concerning the surface activity are summarised. The results of this work allow a simple approach to novel CO2-philes.